The longer a task list is, the more it should be considered to be a task archive, marked as such and moved to a dedicated location.
Tickets should be stored at the location where these are used or matter. It should be easy to figure out which tickets apply to a certain portion of a project. If a person is working on a part of the project in question, relevant tickets should be available with little work.
Tickets can be stored as a comment at the relevant source code location. Every task
should start with TODO
, which is recognized by many tools. Additional tags can be used in order to signal,
which tasks may be ignored under special conditions or may require special care:
-
ACTIVE
: Someone is already working on the marked tag. -
TOFIX
: This task points to an error. -
IDEA
: This task may not be a good idea. -
HACK
: This task marks a code quality issue.